2023 Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winners
Congratulations to these outstanding students and their teachers!
The Winners Concert will be held at 4pm Saturday, April 15th in Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music, 501 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55401.
For everyone’s safety, Thursday Musical strongly recommends all audience members to wear a non-cloth mask such as a N95, KN95, KF94, or surgical mask inside of the recital hall.
| Competition Category | Award | Student | Teacher |
| College Voice | 1st place | Joy Jasik | Carol Eikum |
| 2nd place | Gabriel E Lockheimer | Anthony Leathem | |
| Honorable Mention | Zhicheng He | Cory Renbarger | |
| College Strings | 1st place | Sam Anderson | Korey Konkol |
| Honorable Mention | Stephen Ma | Stephanie Arado | |
| College Piano | 1st place | Jason Lee | Rene Lecuona |
| 2nd place | Benjamin Keating | Catherine Kautsky | |
| Honorable Mention | Henry Giles | Michael Mizrahi | |
| High School Voice | 1st place | Adelina Mukhametzhanova | Melissa Holm-Johansen |
| 2nd place | Tiffany Ogunsemi | Melissa Holm-Johansen | |
| Honorable Mention | Ginny Kraus | Colleen O'Shaugnessy | |
| High School Strings | 1st place | Clark Snavely | Almita Vamos |
| 2nd place | Ruth Conry | Sally O'Reilly | |
| Honorable Mention | Kana Aihara | Almita Vamos | |
| High School Piano | 1st place | Jiansong Ding | Horacio Nuguid |
| 2nd place | Aurora Wang | Alexander Braginsky | |
| Honorable Mention | Edward Ojard | Diana Shapiro | |
| High School Winds, Brass, & Percussion | 1st place | Arlo Hollander | Carson King Fournier |
| 2nd place | Luke Kim | Amy Unseth | |
| Honorable Mention | Emily Fatkhiyev | Timothy Zavadil | |
| Middle School Piano | 1st place | Danica Scofield | Megan Wallace |
| 2nd place | Gaia Daniel | Paul Wirth | |
| Honorable Mention | Andre Peck | Joseph Zins | |
| JUDGES | |
| Category | Judge |
| College & High School Voice | Aaron Humble |
| College & High School Voice | Harriet C. McCleary |
| College & High School Voice | Debra Gilroy |
| College & High School Strings | Nickolai Kolarov |
| College & High School Strings | Holly Ager |
| College & High School Strings | Aja Majkrzak |
| College & Middle School Piano | Yumiko Oshima-Ryan |
| College & Middle School Piano | Dr. Heather MacLaughlin |
| College & Middle School Piano | Dr. Diana Shapiro |
| High School Piano | Christopher Atzinger, DMA |
| High School Piano | Jill Dawe |
| High School Piano | Du Huang |
| High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Sarah Schmalenberger |
| High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Merilee Klemp |
| High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Aaron Hedenstrom |
*Awards for 1st place, 2nd place and Honorable Mention in each category are at the judges’ discretion. If a category does not have a contestant that averages a score with the appropriate minimum, it is possible that that category will not have a 1st place winner (or 2nd place or Honorable Mention).
View the 2022 Winners here.